Who Really Benefits From Remote Work?
A study finds that it depends on age, gender, and job experience.
The prevailing narrative of remote work has often been boiled down to: Workers love it, and bosses hate it. But according to Natalia Emanuel, a labor economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, it may not be that simple.
Emanuel co-authored a study looking at software engineers at an unnamed Fortune 500 company where half of the workers were functionally remote. What she found was that each scenario—working remotely or working in the office—had varying trade-offs, depending on an employee’s age, experience, gender, and more.
So was the Great Remote-Work Experiment a success? That’s what the first episode of The Atlantic’s Good on—hosted by Jerusalem Demsas—dives into.
